Climate Risk & Resilience Panel Discussion - Tauranga & Western Bay Climate Action Festival 

Event Details:

• Date: Thursday, September 19th, 2024
• Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
• Location: Envirohub BOP, 31B Glasgow Street, Tauranga, 3110
• Registration: Secure your ticket HERE. Early registration is recommended, as there are limited spots available! This is a FREE event to attend.

Description:

Climate change is affecting communities nationwide, with severe weather events disrupting our economy and limiting the provision of critical services such as health care and education. This panel discussion focuses on some of the key considerations for improving the resilience of our communities in the face of increasing climate change impacts, including how to put systems in place to minimise disruption, how to plan for future events where there is a high degree of uncertainty and how we can collaborate to achieve greater resilience.

• Facilitator - Nic is the Climate Change Programme Manager at Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council. Nic has over 20 years of experience working with complex resource management issues and communities. He has worked leading and facilitating projects from freshwater problem solving in Canterbury to technology and rural development in the Peruvian Andes.  He likes complex problems.

Speakers:

• James Hughes - Technical Director: Climate and Resilience - Tonkin and Taylor. James has a 20-year career in the infrastructure and environmental sectors, and works for Tonkin and Taylor’s climate change and resilience advisory practice. He is an engineer by training, although now spends most of his time working with organisations to help them plan for a future where we are carbon-constrained, and extremes will be ‘way more extreme’.

• Vicktoria Blake - Principal Advisor: Climate Risk and Resilience  - Health New Zealand – Te  Whatu Ora. Vicktoria has over 15 years of experience in sustainability and conservation. She has spent the last five years focusing on sustainability and resilience in the public health sector currently holding the role of Principal Advisor – Climate Risk and Adaptation for Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand.
• Cushla Loomb - Technical Fellow and Business Director: Climate Change Risk & Adaptation - Beca. Cushla has a passion for enhancing the resilience of communities and brings over 20 years of experience in strategic planning, policy, and climate impact assessment across NZ, Australia and the Pacific. Cushla has worked both in the public and private sector and many of her projects involve working with local government entities to better understand and plan for climate risk in our communities. Cushla is currently the Project Director for the Beca-led Adaptation Workstream of the South Dunedin Futures programme, the Mount North Adaptation Plan with Tauranga City Council and was the Project Director of the Wellington Regional Climate Impact assessment that was completed for all nine councils in the region.

For enquiries please email hannah.sherratt@tewhatuora.govt.nz

Thanks to our Tauranga & Western Bay Climate Action Festival sponsors and partners - Envirohub BOP, Priority One, Aurecon, Tauranga and Western Bay Community Events Fund, Tauranga City Council, Western Bay of Plenty District Council, Bay of Plenty Regional Council, Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora, Beca, University of Waikato